Motivational Quotes

Music

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Music

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

Zappa, Frank

10.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

11.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

12.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

13.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

15.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

16.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

17.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

18.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

19.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

20.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

22.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

23.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

25.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

26.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

27.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

28.

Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

30.

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

31.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Wood, Ron

32.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

33.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

34.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

37.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

40.

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

41.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

43.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

44.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

45.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

46.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

47.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

48.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

49.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

50.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha